Cultural trends for 2026. People are living in the shadow of never-ending uncertainty. Business leaders are expected to survive today and innovate for tomorrow.

What if AI doesn’t control us through force, but through convenience—predicting our thoughts, smoothing decisions, and quietly shaping our behavior without us noticing?

Imagine handing the nuclear launch codes to the world’s most advanced artificial intelligence. You’d hope the machine would ...

If that successor is a Democrat, the instinct may be to revive the alliance framework that existed during the Cold War. But that would be the wrong approach. The world has changed since Washington ...

AI systems that try to influence your purchases can also be used to infer what you fear, what you trust and which stories you ...

The conduct of powerful nations is causing knock-on effects in the cyber world as long-standing security frameworks appear increasingly precarious.

While governments discuss how to regulate the transformative technological revolution, AI-driven prediction markets are ...

If an environment rewards propaganda, intimidation, selective truth and plausible deniability, then systems built and tuned inside that environment drift towards those outputs, because those outputs “ ...

Review & Outlook: European leaders including NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and the U.K.’s Chief of Defense Staff Richard Knighton are urging voters to make ...

In Focus delivers deeper coverage of the political, cultural, and ideological issues shaping America. Published daily by senior writers and experts, these in-depth pieces go beyond the headlines to ...

Every major technological wave raises the same question: what does this mean for jobs and work? History provides a useful lens. The steam engine industrialized muscle, pulling workers into centralized ...